Ohio Valley Railway Co. v. Copley

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

— -Reversing.

The appellee Thomas Copley was injured while in the service of the appellant. He was engaged in stripping coal bumpers, which was effected by cutting the heads from the steel rivets that held sheets of steel in the form of a coal bumper. Two tools were used in this work, an ordinary sledge hammer and a steel T-rail cutter, the latter being a wedge shaped tool, sharp at one end, with a head on the other. The cutter was about two inches broad, and six or eight inches long, and had a handle from eighteen to twenty-four inches long, attached to the…